Bone Thugs E. 1999 Eternal-Top 5 Album of All Time

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This was absolutely the case in 95-96. Crossroads was one of the biggest songs of all time.
In 2022, it has less streams on Spotify than Survival of the Fittest. A song that didn’t even crack the top 40 in real time.
Crossroads should have ten times the number of streams. Probably more honestly, but it didn’t stand the test of time :manny:
Again, this isn’t my opinion, I’m basing it off objective data.

Streaming numbers can be misleading because there's other factors to consider. When was the song made available to the platform? Is it available everywhere?
 

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great album but top 5 is stretching it

also Bones music hasn’t aged as well as the other classic albums
 

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Dallas by way of Houston by way of San Antonio
Cleveland is the city where we come from so ruuuunnnnn
Cleveland is the city where we come from so ruuuunnnnn
Eeeeeeeast (East 1999) tha nine nine nine nine
Eeeeeeeast (East 1999) tha nine nine nine nine

:wow:

Bone still lost the Verzuz to Three 6 though :ufdup:
 

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This album got so much burn. Once in a blue I through it on and never skip a track. DJ U-Neek deserves a lot of praise. I remember me and my bro were all shook to try and decipher whatever was in the liner. You were supposed to hold it in the mirror and a message or curse was revealed. Don't even know if there is any truth to that or where it came from :russ:
 

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The Infamous is better
OBFCL >
Liquid Swordz >
Me Against The World >

Those are just the albums that are without question better that also dropped in 95.
I dont disagee with u persay about any of those albums, however in 2022 id much rather listen to E 1999 over any of those minus maybe MATW:yeshrug:...its originality and sound kept it fresh
 

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top 10... easy.

my top 10 albums...

1. 7 Day Theory
2. Me Against the World
3. Reasonable Doubt
4. Adrenaline Rush
5. All Eyez on Me
6. E 1999 Eternal
7. Aquemini
8. The Score (I know Wacky aint feelin this shyt)
9. Death Certificate
10. ATLiens
11. The Diary
12. Doggystyle

awe shyt I kept goin... it was about to be Cube and Face'd up after that...
not the worst list i ever seen honestly ..adrenaline rush got a few duds on there tho
 

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Streaming numbers can be misleading because there's other factors to consider. When was the song made available to the platform? Is it available everywhere?
These are fair points.
I did a quick Google search and was able to find information for Mobb and Bone and Shook Ones and Crossroads going back to 2017 on Spotify. Shook Ones was even slightly ahead of Crossroads even back then.
273 Hip-Hop and R&B Artists Ranked by Monthly Spotify Listeners (January 2018) | DJBooth

So it doesn’t seem it’s an issue with when they were put on Spotify or availability. As we have approx. 5 years of data to look at.
 

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These are fair points.
I did a quick Google search and was able to find information for Mobb and Bone and Shook Ones and Crossroads going back to 2017 on Spotify. Shook Ones was even slightly ahead of Crossroads even back then.
273 Hip-Hop and R&B Artists Ranked by Monthly Spotify Listeners (January 2018) | DJBooth

So it doesn’t seem it’s an issue with when they were put on Spotify or availability. As we have approx. 5 years of data to look at.

Either way, the streaming numbers don't necessarily speak to one of these songs being more timeless than the other based on streams.
 

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You couldn't find a person from the midwest who doesn't love this album.
 

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Either way, the streaming numbers don't necessarily speak to one of these songs being more timeless than the other based on streams.
Sure it does. It’s data on what people are listening to now and at least over the past five years what they’ve been listening to. Some shyt fades over time and some shyt becomes prominent. Bone has faded to the point that you would never know they were one of the biggest groups of the 90s (if not the biggest) with one of the biggest songs ever, unless you lived through it.

Coolio for example, who was also way bigger than Mobb Deep in 95 and as big if not bigger than Bone, has 9.7 million monthly listeners compared to Mobb’s 4.1 million and Bone’s 3.8 million. Gangstas Paradise has almost 900 million streams. Crossroads has 140 million. Shook Ones is at 330 million. You would expect Bone to be on par with Coolio, not getting out streamed by a group that made non commercial NY rap.
 

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If this album was really top 5 of all time, wouldn’t you expect it to be streaming like it was? Particularly since it was also one of the biggest rap albums of all time commercially speaking in real time?
 

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Sure it does. It’s data on what people are listening to now and at least over the past five years what they’ve been listening to. Some shyt fades over time and some shyt becomes prominent. Bone has faded to the point that you would never know they were one of the biggest groups of the 90s (if not the biggest) with one of the biggest songs ever, unless you lived through it.

Coolio for example, who was also way bigger than Mobb Deep in 95 and as big if not bigger than Bone, has 9.7 million monthly listeners compared to Mobb’s 4.1 million and Bone’s 3.8 million. Gangstas Paradise has almost 900 million streams. Crossroads has 140 million. Shook Ones is at 330 million. You would expect Bone to be on par with Coolio, not getting out streamed by a group that made non commercial NY rap.

None of this has anything to do with how timeless that music is though especially comparing one artist to another. There's all kinds of factors that affect that data.
 
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